Welcome to Bounce 2025, Northern Ireland’s showcase of disabled, d/Deaf and neurodivergent artistic talent. Bounce 2025 is taking place in Belfast and Derry~Londonderry over 4 dynamic days, from 2 to 5 October.
The theme of Bounce 2025 is ‘Not Just…’, provoking creative conversation on disability representation, diversity, and intersectionality in the arts sector. The opening events ‘Not Just…BS’ (Breakfast Symposium) in both Derry-Londonderry and Belfast, will provide a space for our artists and audiences to connect and network alongside artistic interludes from writers and performers. We hope you can join us at these special events.
Our Bounce 2025 events bring opportunities for you to laugh, create, contemplate, and participate through theatre, dance, film, circus, visual arts. This is a packed programme of works inspired and led by d/Deaf disabled and neurodivergent talent with vulnerable, intimate, joyous, comedic and challenging voices of celebration and rebellion, sex and sexuality, identity and belonging, postpartum depression and the power of language.
You can access the programme in various formats using the buttons on the right:
A full-colour PDF programme.
A large print programme. This version is also screen reader-compatible.
A button to request a Braille programme. We have Braille copies in our office.
Would you like to be a part of Bounce 2026?
Proposals should be sent by 4:00 pm on Monday 8 December 2025.
Events in
Derry- Londonderry
2 October
Derry-Londonderry
Not Just BS (Breakfast Symposium)
Time: 10.30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: The Playhouse
Tickets: £5
2 - 4 October
Derry-Londonderry
Re-collections by Justine Scoltock
Time: See more information
Location: The Playhouse
Tickets: Free
2 October
Derry-Londonderry
(W)right Now
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: The Playhouse
Tickets: £5
2 October
Derry-Londonderry
Still Not Your Pity Party!
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 pm
Location: The Playhouse
Tickets: £10
3 October
Derry-Londonderry
Mind the Time
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Location: The Nerve Centre
Tickets: £4
4 October
Derry-Londonderry
Dreaming Disability Futures
Time: 12:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Void Art Centre
Tickets: £5
4 October
Derry-Londonderry
We Should Not March to the Beat of the Same Drum by Rebecca Strain
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: The Centre for Contemporary Art
Tickets: Free
Events in
Belfast
2 - 24 October
Belfast
Passages by Anushiya Sundaralingam
Time: See more information
Location: Atypical Gallery
Tickets: Free
2 October
Belfast
Positive Sounds
Time: 8:00 – 11:00 pm
Location: The Dark Horse
Tickets: £10
3 October
Belfast
Fócloir Faoi Mhíchumas / Disability Dictionary
Time: 1:00 – 4:30 pm
Location: The Duncairn
Tickets: FREE or Pay what you can
3 October
Belfast
Not Just BS (Breakfast Symposium)
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: The MAC
Tickets: £5
3 October
Belfast
Artist Talk with Anushiya Sundaralingam
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: Atypical Gallery
Tickets: Free
3 October
Belfast
Speak Up with Alice McCullough
Time: 2:30 – 4:30 pm
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s
Tickets: £5
3 October
Belfast
Disability-Led Queeruptions in the Mainstream: by JulieMac
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Location: Ledger Studio
Tickets: £5
3 October
Belfast
Not Just Clowning: An Introduction to Circus Skills
Time: 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Location: Circusful
Tickets: Free or Pay-What-You-Can
3 October
Belfast
Open Mic Literary Event
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Location: Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s
Tickets: £5
3 October
Belfast
Tales from the Mother
Time: 8:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: Crescent Arts Centre
Tickets: £15
4 October
Belfast
Signs of Dissent
Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: The MAC
Tickets: Free
4 October
Belfast
Vroom! Vroom! by Rogue Encounters
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Location: Crescent Arts Centre
Tickets: £4
4 October
Belfast
Sick in the City
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Location: Hustle
Tickets: Free
4 October
Belfast
Choral Constellation by Open Arts Choir
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: St Comgall’s
Tickets: £10 plus booking fee
4 October
Belfast
Rapture and Repulsion
Time: 8:00 – 9:00 pm
Location: Crescent Arts Centre
Tickets: £10
5 October
Belfast
From Berlin to Belfast: International Perspectives on Disabled-Led Co-Creation
Time: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Location: Accidental Theatre and Online
Tickets: Free
5 October
Belfast
Eugene McPeake
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Location: The Black Box
Tickets: £8
5 October
Belfast
Witches
Time: 3:30 – 5:30 pm
Location: Queen’s Film Theatre
Tickets: Up to £9.80 plus booking fee
5 October
Belfast
Out of the Box
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: The Black Box
Tickets: £12
Programme highlights in British and Irish Sign Language
Video with Irish Sign language
Video with British Sign language
Bounce Bursary
This year, we are offering four bursaries of up to £50, which are available to help d/Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent people attend Bounce. Bursaries can be used for travel, event tickets, and subsistence (excluding alcohol).
We will prioritise requests from individuals who live outside Belfast or Derry~Londonderry.
To apply, please answer the following questions in an email to: administration@universityofatypical.org
a) Full name
b) What would you like to spend the £50 on?
c) Where are you based?
d) Tell us a little bit about you and why you are requesting a bursary
Bursary requests must be emailed before Wednesday 17 September at 4:00 pm. Everyone will be notified on 19 September.
